Understanding Chinese SocietyJohn Wiley & Sons, 2013年7月8日 - 280 頁 This new book provides an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the main features of Chinese society. Drawing on a wealth of material, the author offers a fresh understanding of a unique society that has undergone continuous transformation and upheaval throughout the twentieth century. Understanding Chinese Society looks in all its richness at the society with the largest population on earth. In order to explore long-term change and continuity, the book examines China from pre-revolutionary times to today's rapidly modernising society, although the focus is on recent change. Particular attention is paid to China's cultural traditions and hierarchical relationships in familial and wider social settings, and their fate in the modern world. Successive chapters investigate changes in the relations of rural and urban sectors of society; in the structure of families; in political and economic power; in cultural hegemony, education and the media; and in patterns of social inequality. A final chapter asks whether Chinese society is becoming more complex and differentiated in the course of modernisation and considers recent debates on the growth of civil society and democratisation. This book will be indispensable for anyone studying Chinese society, Asian societies and comparative sociology. |
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... dominance of European and American empires in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has until recently provided the background to contemporary assumptions about the world system. The rise of the Soviet Union and its satellites in ...
... dominant class. Cultural beliefs and hierarchies both stem from and reinforce the economic and political power of the dominant class in a given mode of production. Hence, if power is to be transferred away from the former owners of the ...
... dominant discourse and practice. Employed in a prestigious, state-run university, their role was not to produce independent evaluations of the merit of fertility regulation, but to assist the state in its policy efforts.' It would ...
... dominant groups and classes. How successful was this project of cultural transformation? What are the main cultural tendencies in the recent era of greater liberalization and exposure to global culture outside China? Chapter 8 examines ...
... dominance of Mao at the Zunyi conference in 1935, his 'sinified Marxism' became the new orthodoxy, at first within the party and then, from 1949, within the People's Republic as a whole, although this did not prevent conflicts between ...
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Rural and Urban in China | |
Individual and Society in China | |
Continuity and Change | |
Economic and Political | |
Cultural | |
Changing Patterns of Social Inequality | |
The Differentiation of Chinese Society | |